I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"
